Pokemon Uranium is not a very good game.

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Blueberry Pancakes: Aug 18, 2012; Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!

The Pokemon series could use more pirates. So far we've had Team Aqua and Neo Team Plasma, but a regular pirate trainer class could be neat.

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Malachite_Dragon: Mar 31, 2010; Weaving Merry Christmas magic

I thought becoming the Hokage was a joke :psyduck:

what the gently caress

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Ariong: Jun 25, 2012

The evolved form of the gunslinger pistol shrimp should look more cowboyish, not less. :mad:

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Earnestly: Apr 24, 2010; Jazz hands!

Hah! _{The kosher joke made my beer go down the wrong pipe.}

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Jen X: Sep 29, 2014; To bring light to the darkness, whether that darkness be ignorance, injustice, apathy, or stagnation.

Tsukinami town is stupid

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Vorpal Cat: Mar 19, 2009; Oh god what did I just post?

Didn't the official games already have a pistol shrimp pokemon with Clawitzer? Also how does holding a gun make something a fire type? I'm beginning to think this fan game wasn't well thought out.

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Blueberry Pancakes: Aug 18, 2012; Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!

Because you can fire a gun. :v:

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Bogart: Apr 12, 2010; by VideoGames

That would make Pangoro a steel type.

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Sorites: Sep 10, 2012

Vorpal Cat posted:

Didn't the official games already have a pistol shrimp pokemon with Clawitzer?

Yeah, but it wasn't literally holding a handgun.

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raisamike3: Oct 13, 2012

Shrimp with a gun goes so far against what Pokemon would do it's not even funny.
What's worse is that X and Y made a better version in Crawlauncher that not only makes more sense but looks so much cooler

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Waffleman_: Jan 20, 2011; I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

This game came out in 2016.

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Haifisch: Nov 13, 2010; Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!; Taco Defender

Waffleman_ posted:

This game came out in 2016.

But it was in development hell for 500 years, so it's okay. Making an editing pass to make sure there wasn't stupid poo poo left over from years-old writing? Why would you do that?

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Waffleman_: Jan 20, 2011; I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

It started development in 2009, right? I think even by then, the whole pirates vs ninjas shtick was passe.

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KataraniSword: Apr 22, 2008; but at least I don't have
a MLP or MSPA avatar.
I am my own man.

Waffleman_ posted:

It started development in 2009, right? I think even by then, the whole pirates vs ninjas shtick was passe.

It had a 9 year development and came out last year, so 2007.

Naruto and One Piece had just made it big in America.

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Waffleman_: Jan 20, 2011; I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

Okay yeah.

But like....come on.

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Manatee Cannon: Aug 26, 2010

krilvolver elevates that agumon holding a gun someone posted earlier from funny joke to prophetic

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Arcade Rabbit: Nov 11, 2013

raisamike3 posted:

Shrimp with a gun goes so far against what Pokemon would do it's not even funny.
What's worse is that X and Y made a better version in Crawlauncher that not only makes more sense but looks so much cooler

Comparing the two makes the difference in quality really obvious. Not to say it wasn't before, but now we have two ideas directly based on the same core concept.

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Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

I presume Haagross is supposed to be a hagfish Pokemon? Not a well-designed one, mind you, but... Uranium.

I honestly kind of approve of Uranium going whole hog on eels and eel-oids. I have no idea why, but it's at least slightly interesting, unlike "black and green Nuclear types" or "shrimp with a gun." (The first evo of gumshrimp having a deputy pun and the second one not having a sheriff pun sort of bugs me, although it's not nearly as bad as the general design decisions behind gunshrimp.)

EDIT: Also, Swabone not being an alternate evolution of Cubone that drowns its sorrows by escaping into the maritime life makes me kind of sad, even though Cubone isn't even in this game.

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LAY-ZX: Nov 10, 2009

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Is that supposed to be a hydrothermal vent Pokemon? That's a neat idea I guess but "eel sticking out of a hole" is definitely not the way to realize it.

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LSD at the gangbang: Dec 27, 2009

I startled my cat laughing when I saw the shrimp gun.

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hey girl you up: May 21, 2001; Forum Nice Guy

LAY-ZX posted:

Is that supposed to be a hydrothermal vent Pokemon? That's a neat idea I guess but "eel sticking out of a hole" is definitely not the way to realize it.

Tube worms that live in hydrothermal vents.

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Scarodactyl: Oct 22, 2015

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

The guy there is an underwater trainer, and he has some sort of worm sticking out of a hole. Lavent is... Lavent. Fire/Dragon.

I think this may be my new favorite pokemon

Scarodactyl fucked around with this message at 14:41 on May 20, 2017

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Johnny Joestar: Oct 21, 2010; Don't shoot him?

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i would argue that pokemon sage even does the idea better than uranium since it's not just 'shrimp holding a gun'

craliber

crawglock

# ? May 20, 2017 05:41

Kyrosiris: May 24, 2006; You try to be happy when everyone is summoning you everywhere to "be their friend".

Okay, Craliber is cute and those names are both brilliant.

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Prism: Dec 22, 2007; yospos

It's a pistol shrimp with a bullet face. I like it.

Edit: it even has the hinge-like construction on its claw 'thumb' that a real bullet shrimp does, though IIRC on them it's the bigger portion that moves rather than the smaller.

Prism fucked around with this message at 05:48 on May 20, 2017

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Ometeotl: Feb 13, 2012; It's MISSEL! Or SISSLE!
I confused myself...

Johnny Joestar posted:

i would argue that pokemon sage even does the idea better than uranium since it's not just 'shrimp holding a gun'

craliber

crawglock

That's better but it's still not very good.

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Johnny Joestar: Oct 21, 2010; Don't shoot him?

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Ometeotl posted:

That's better but it's still not very good.

the official version is definitely way better than both of these sets, but it always amazes me how much uranium fucks up simple designs in comparison

# ? May 20, 2017 06:00

notoriousman: Nov 18, 2007; I'M AWARE I'M
AN IDIOT

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

Haagross is some sort of eel. Posion/Electric, uses Goodra's hidden ability and Scolipede's sprite.

Specifically, a Hagfish, known for producing a "slime" that rapidly expands when exposed to water; it does this when threatened to disorient predators or even outright prohibit the use of their mouths or gills. I don't think they produce electricity, but at least a unique typing is better than another water/poison.

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LAY-ZX: Nov 10, 2009

hey girl you up posted:

Tube worms that live in hydrothermal vents.

That is what I meant, but there's still definitely a better way to do it.

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Redeye Flight: Mar 26, 2010; God, I'm so tired. What the hell did I post last night?

I'd like to make sure nobody misses this.

So this game, right? It makes fun of mandatory HM usage despite having so much of it, and gives you stuff to circumvent HMs eventually?

THEY ADDED AN UNDERWATER-ONLY ROCK SMASH.

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LAY-ZX: Nov 10, 2009

Redeye Flight posted:

THEY ADDED AN UNDERWATER-ONLY ROCK SMASH.

And like the actual Rock Smash, it's a TM, not an HM

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Space Kablooey: May 6, 2009

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

ahahahahahhha

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the Orb of Zot: Jun 25, 2013; Apport: the Orb of Zot
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Yoink! You pull the item towards yourself.
You see here the Orb of Zot.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

Angelure isn't in the game. It isn't the location of the one gym that remains. It was planned for that, but then ninjas happened.

It's ostensibly planned, but the main team disbanded after the C&D and the new guys are more focused on bugfixes and quality of life improvements.

How did the developers miss that when the actual correct location of the last gym is mentioned later in the same conversation? How?

Also, wasn't it a DMCA or something like that rather than a C&D? I remember their big announcement talking about multiple takedown notices but not having been contacted directly.

Redeye Flight posted:

I'd like to make sure nobody misses this.

So this game, right? It makes fun of mandatory HM usage despite having so much of it, and gives you stuff to circumvent HMs eventually?

THEY ADDED AN UNDERWATER-ONLY ROCK SMASH.

That's not even as dumb as the fact that it's a water type version of Psyshock, the psychic type move that is literally only beaten out in usefulness by legendary-only signature moves (Psycho Boost and Psystrike, and the latter is literally just a better Psyshock). The one thing that balances Psyshock out is that Psychic isn't that great of an attacking type, while water is one of the most popular types in the entire game.

Literally the only three special attack water moves that Coral Break would be worse than in actual Pokemon would be Scald (varying on the Pokemon), Water Spout if it's at ultra high power, and Steam Eruption. Maybe Origin Pulse as well.

GeneX posted:

Tsukinami town is stupid

From when I watched the TieTuesday LP of this, this is when the game just completely goes off the deep end, both in terms of quality and in terms of feeling even remotely like an actual Pokemon game.

Everything from this update forward in terms of main game progression was added in the 1.0 release, so my guess is they tried rushing it out the door as fast as possible to try and release the full* game before Pokemon Sun/Moon came out (and thus take advantage of the hype building up for those to get a ton of downloads)

:magical:

sums up my reaction for here on out, pretty much.

^{*postgame not included}

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Pyro Jack: Oct 2, 2016

I'm somewhat disappointed that Nep-Nep's Mega Evolution doesn't keep the Nuclear color-scheme. On one hand, I expected them to make a Nuclear Mega-Gyarados but on the other hand, I expect them to be too lazy to actually make a sprite.

It's probably the latter to be honest.

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Orange Fluffy Sheep: Jul 26, 2008; Bad EXP received

Pyro Jack posted:

I'm somewhat disappointed that Nep-Nep's Mega Evolution doesn't keep the Nuclear color-scheme. On one hand, I expected them to make a Nuclear Mega-Gyarados but on the other hand, I expect them to be too lazy to actually make a sprite.

It's probably the latter to be honest.

Nep-Nep is a normal Gyarados. Nuke-Nuke is the rad one. They're two different beings. Nuclear Mega Gyarados does have a palette swap sprite.

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